intercourse

This was the year Japan passed landmark laws to redefine rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse" and raised the age of consent from 13 to 16.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

We don’t think about it in those terms, of course, but that was the obvious point for early humans with little knowledge of gestation and a weak understanding of the role of intercourse in procreation.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024

She followed all the old wives’ tales—including “drugging” her husband with supplements, timing intercourse, and eating acidic foods—in an attempt to maximize the odds that her third child would be a daughter.

From Slate ● May 7, 2024

The WHO defines infertility as a disease of the male or female reproductive system that is defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.

From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2023

“Should our whole intercourse consist of an exchange of compliments? Ma foil”.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

There is in mankind a universal contract implied in all their intercourses....

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

Happy love restored her at once to her natural mood, lulling her to the deepest rest when she rested, and rendering her free and self-possessed in all the employments and intercourses of life.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet

Yet to me it seemed that the lads actually sought to avoid these casual intercourses.

From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony

In all the intercourses of her family, since the first rough usage which she remembered, there had never been anything sweet or gracious. 

From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony

Here he spent the rest of days in devotional exercises in friendly intercourses with other Sufis and in religious instruction of the young.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Field, Claud